Even though the official release date is not until March 1st, I upgraded BackTrack 5 to R2 today following this excellent guide.
But after the full upgrade I found that VMware Workstation was not working. Ah, the fun of being an early adopter. Time to patch and recompile the sources (thanks to Weltall for providing the patch).
Open a terminal, and enter the following commands:
prepare-kernel-sources cd /tmp wget http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz tar vxzf vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz ./patch-modules_3.2.0.sh
Voila. You should now be able to start VMware Workstation. Now update VMware tools in your VMware virtual machines, and you should be ready to go. Happy hacking!
damian
will this address an issue with vmware tools installed on backtrack 5 r2 (virtual environment) or fix an issue with vmware workstion installed on backtrack 5 r2 as the host machine?
I just upgraded my vmware workstation to 8.0.2 on my host and I am having issues upgrading the vmware tools in my backtrack 5 r2 kde x64 virtual environment.
Carsten
Only VMware installed on a BT5 R2 host unfortunately.